You can’t talk about blockchain and not bring up CBDCs and stablecoins
Economies are currently experiencing the development of brand new ideas around CBDCs, stablecoins or private digital currencies. Ever since the publication of Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper back in November 2008, “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” the term “blockchain” has been synonymous with digital currencies in the sense of the underlying technology that allows for the transfer of value, peer-to-peer. What’s interesting is that the term “blockchain” is not used once in that white paper. The purpose of the paper was to propose a solution to the core issue of....
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The job listing follows comments made by Fed Chair Jerome Powell in recent weeks where he said the central bank needed “better regulatory answers” for global stablecoins.
Central banks are paying very close attention to stablecoins, seeking to control them — and decentralization may be the solution. Over the last couple of years, we have seen a lot of interest from central banks and governments in the stablecoin market. The reason behind it lies in the development of central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs.The idea of issuing a digital alternative to cash is a great motivator for central banks. It allows them to gain more control over the transition and processing of cashless transactions, which are currently overseen indirectly through private payment....
Blockchain payment platform e-Money is bringing its fiat-pegged European stablecoins to the Ethereum-rivalling Avalanche network. Next week, at the annual Avalanche Summit in Barcelona, the Danish fintech firm will introduce its suite of fully collateralized interest-bearing stablecoins to the blockchain, giving Avalanche users the opportunity to trade e-Money’s stablecoins, Euros (EEUR), Swiss francs (ECHF), Norwegian […]